Back In Whanga's!

Paul and I sailed back to Whangarei from Great Barrier Island on Sunday 4th, we had a great sail with wind on the beam, we were averaging 7knots a one point. Leaving Great Barrier was a bit of a relief, as usual we had very windy weather out there, with a storm blowing through on Friday and Saturday 2/3rd of March with winds up to 60 knots. We had found ourselves a snug anchorage on Thursday ready for the blow, but on Friday some Auckland wankers (can you guess I might have been a weee bit peeved) came and anchored too close to us, we had 120ft of chain out ready for the blow, long story short, when we started to swing to our chain there boats were in the way, but did they move......no they watched us getting closer and closer. In the end at 10.30 at night with the wind picking up to 30-40 knots we moved to a more exposed spot. We both felt safer being away from wankers like that. We had heard them comment earlier in the day that they had never had to anchor with all chain before, perhaps we should have taken the hint from that. Anyhow enough of my rant.

The sail back to Whangarei started with a bit of chop in the Colville channel after the blow the night before, but it smoothed out and the sail was lovely. We had a visit from a pod of dolphins as we sailed past the Hen and Chicken Islands. Then the wind died completely when we got into the Whangarei Harbour. We have since taken out and had new seals put in the gearbox thingy(Paul knows what it is) and today we replaced it on the motor. We have taken the bike for a wee blat, and we have caught up with a bit of shopping. We plan to hang here until monday then we hope to head north up to Houhora Harbour perhaps. We will see which way the wind blows????